Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an annual festival coloured this year by political shifts roiling West Africa. Tens ...

Parisian label Hot Mule Records have released 'Wagadu Grooves Vol.2', a new compilation album chronicling the releases of Wassoulou label Camara Production.

The collaborative partnership of the Music lsquo;In Africa Foundation rsquo; (MIAF) and that of the African Union Commission ...

Mali-born singer Aya Nakamura has set a new record as the first African artist to hit one billion views on YouTube. Her song ...

Where next for Africa? Kenya slammed for hosting Sudan rebels February 18, 2025 32 minutes Available for over a year The collapse of an illegally operated gold mine in western Mali at the weekend ...

The accident took place in an open-pit area people had gone into in search of gold. Informal mining is a common and dangerous ...

Lagos In Paris is a visionary West African producer and performer collective pioneering a bold new sound they define as ‘Afraw’ Electronic Music, a seamless fusion of traditional African rhythms, ...

But this year's edition of the Festival sur le Niger took place against the backdrop of Mali's exit - along with Burkina Faso and Niger - from the West African bloc ECOWAS and uncertainty about ...